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80 at Nevada volleyball tournament report mystery illness
Reno Gazette Journal ^ | 4/20/2003 07:20 pm | Associated Press

Posted on 04/21/2003 1:19:41 PM PDT by Howeln

Edited on 05/07/2004 7:36:12 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Health officials are investigating a mystery illness that affected dozens of players, coaches and parents at a girls'regional volleyball tournament.

Eighty tournament participants staying at the Reno Hilton reported flu-like symptoms Sunday, said Bob Sack, director of environmental health at the Washoe County District Health Department.


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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: illness; sars; volleyball
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IS it me, or do I see SARS, seems most of the symptoms are there.
1 posted on 04/21/2003 1:19:41 PM PDT by Howeln
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To: Howeln
Hope this isn't bioterorism at work.
2 posted on 04/21/2003 1:22:17 PM PDT by WellsFargo94
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To: Howeln
Is it me or do I see "mass hysteria"? Generally when an entire team, work plac, etc. comes down with this stuff and they send most of them home, it comes down to mass hysteria.
3 posted on 04/21/2003 1:22:28 PM PDT by abnegation
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To: Howeln
Here's a novel thought...what if these "flu-like" symptoms are the flu!! Wouldn't that be wierd?
4 posted on 04/21/2003 1:25:53 PM PDT by aardvark1
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To: Howeln
It's the food. Now, since it involves teens, the food inspectors should go past the vegetables and straight to the pizza. Hope they get to the bottom of it quickly.
5 posted on 04/21/2003 1:27:06 PM PDT by Migraine (my grain is pretty gnarly today)
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To: Howeln
SARS...high fever, aches, persistent cough, ..........not stomach flu or diarrhea. Sounds like bad casserole to me.
6 posted on 04/21/2003 1:28:39 PM PDT by irish guard
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To: Howeln
Probably brought on by sand fleas, assuming of course the tournament was outdoors in the sand......

If not then I would just blame it on the water or food. No need for alarm....

7 posted on 04/21/2003 1:30:17 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Nothing worse than an angry herd of hungry finches....)
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To: irish guard
Norwalk virus would be my first guess.
8 posted on 04/21/2003 1:31:06 PM PDT by myprecious
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To: Howeln
This one shouts "food poisoning." Too quick and too universal for SARS. Teenagers on a field trip - naw, I was never a garbage gut...heh heh...

The most common one with this incubation period is staph food poisoning, followed by strep and enteropathogenic E. coli. Pretty miserable stuff, but not fatal to the young and healthy.

9 posted on 04/21/2003 1:37:15 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Howeln
officials took stool samples

Government office holders will take credit for anything.

10 posted on 04/21/2003 1:37:46 PM PDT by Reeses
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To: irish guard
It was the salmon mouse.
11 posted on 04/21/2003 1:39:03 PM PDT by js1138
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To: irish guard
mmm, I thought I remember reading that diarrhea was one of the symptoms, that and the 100.4+ fever (though I like the accuracy for the temperature :-). Though I can't find diarrhea listed now, my bad.
12 posted on 04/21/2003 1:43:24 PM PDT by Howeln
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IS it me, or do I see SARS, seems most of the symptoms are there.

Well, they don't seem to me the usual symptoms one could expect to contract when visiting Reno.

13 posted on 04/21/2003 1:50:09 PM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: Billthedrill
Boy, when *I* had food poisoning from bad fish, I thought I was gonna die and afraid I wouldn't!! Nasty nasty stuff.
14 posted on 04/21/2003 1:53:57 PM PDT by EggsAckley ( Midnight at the Oasis)
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To: Migraine
Now, since it involves teens, the food inspectors should go past the vegetables and straight to the pizza. Hope they get to the bottom of it quickly.

I disagree. Check the salad bar first.

15 posted on 04/21/2003 1:55:19 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Howeln
IS it me, or do I see SARS, seems most of the symptoms are there.

Or Legionaires Disease or the flu or a jillion other things.

So9

16 posted on 04/21/2003 1:56:38 PM PDT by Servant of the Nine (We are the Hegemon. We can do anything we damned well please.)
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Well, they don't seem to me the usual symptoms one could expect to contract when visiting Reno.

Poverty and a Hangover?

So9

17 posted on 04/21/2003 1:58:18 PM PDT by Servant of the Nine (We are the Hegemon. We can do anything we damned well please.)
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To: Howeln
Didn't the same thing happen a few days ago in California?
18 posted on 04/21/2003 1:58:39 PM PDT by Djarum
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To: Howeln
According to Big White Guy in Hong Kong, the death rate in Hong Kong for SARS victims aged 15 to 34 has been only o.4% (i.e., 4 per thousand). So, even if this is SARS (which I doubt,) it's much less serious at that age.

Other death rates, according to the same source: age 0-14 0.0%; age 35-54 3.6%; age 55-64 6.5%; age 65-74 18.9%; age 75+ 28.6%.

19 posted on 04/21/2003 2:14:48 PM PDT by aristeides
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To: Howeln
The SARS victims at Amoy Gardens in Hong Kong have had bad diarrhea.
20 posted on 04/21/2003 2:15:46 PM PDT by aristeides
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